CSTU 100 Quiz 1 - Egypt was a

Liberty University CSTU 100 Quiz 1

·         Question 1

Egypt was a __________ throughout its long history.

Democracy

Theocracy

·         Question 2

This was perhaps the best known sculpture of Egyptian art.

Queen Nefretete

·         Question 3

Which artifact provided the key that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Rosetta Stone

·         Question 4

What term describes the multiple perspectives we see in Egyptian art, especially in portraying the human body?

Frontal Plane

·         Question 5

The flux of change that we see in a culture is called

Cultural Epoch Theory

·         Question 6

The first written language was called

Cuneiform

·         Question 7

Known as the land between the Rivers.

Mesopotamia

·         Question 8

The establishment of permanent agricultural communities marked the beginning of what?

Culture

·         Question 9

The belief in and worship of many gods.

Polytheism

·         Question 10

The Egyptian religion had a certain ethical component called ________

maat

·         Question 11

The basic way an individual looks at life, his basic worldview, the grid through which he see the world.

Presuppositions

·         Question 12

What two concepts are the main focuses of our studies in CSTU 101?

Culture and values

·         Question 13

Who wrote these words for us to live by? “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy…”

Paul

·         Question 14

Who said that “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child” when we do not have an understanding of the past?

Cicero

·         Question 15

Who said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose”

Jim Elliot

·         Question 16

Which cultures religion could be described as being pragmatic and self-serving?

Mesopotamians

·         Question 17

This word is defined as the sum total of the collective beliefs, behaviors, and values that connect a group within a society.

Culture

·         Question 18

Uncommon valor was a common virtue is located on which monument?

Iwo Jima Memorial

·         Question 19

Legal standards had been developed in the past but none so practical as the Code of Laws that established the rule of law from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Who was the Code of Laws named after?

Hammurabi

·         Question 20

Which president said “A nation must believe in three things: It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

Roosevelt

·         Question 21

The Iwo Jima Memorial is located in Japan, and is a tribute to their soldiers.

False

·         Question 22

The Egyptian Culture was very concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to segregate those who were different.

False

·         Question 23

The "Men of Issachar" were located in a small town in Egypt, and directed the construction of the first pyramid.

False

·         Question 24

The Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture were very similar.

False

·         Question 25

The Mesopotamians built their ziggurats and temple from the available stone, while the Egyptians built their tomb, temples using sun-dried bricks.

False

·         Question 26

King Cyrus that is mentioned in the Bible did not really exist.

False

·         Question 27

Egyptian culture’s life and religion were inseparable.

True

·         Question 28

Egyptian art depicts men and woman according to their most characteristic angle; that is the face and legs in profile but the eyes and torso as if viewed from the front.

True

·         Question 29

The visual arts used within a culture are usually self-explanatory.

True

·         Question 30

We can think of a paradigm shift as a change in the way that we do mathematics.

False